Star Wars and philosophy: more powerful than you can possibly imagine 9780812697018, 0812697014, 9781282718678, 1282718673
"The Star Wars films continue to revolutionize science fiction, creating new standards for cinematographic excellen
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English Pages xvi, 227 pages Year 2010;2005
Table of contents :
"You cannot escape your destiny" (or can you?) : freedom and predestination in the Skywalker family / Jason T. Eberl --
Stoicism in the stars : Yoda, the Emperor, and the Force / William O. Stephens --
The Far East of Star wars / Walter [Ritoku] Robinson --
Moral ambiguity in a black-and-white universe / Richard H. Dees --
"Try not-do or do not" : ethics in a galaxy far, far away --
The aspiring Jedi's handbook of virtue / Judith Barad --
"A wretched hive of scum and villainy" : Star wars and the problem of evil / Christopher M. Brown --
"Be mindful of the living Force" : environmental ethics in Star wars / Elizabeth F. Cooke --
Send in the clones : the ethics of future wars / Richard Hanley --
"Don't call me a mindless philosopher!" : alien technologies and the metaphysics of The Force --
A technological galaxy : Heidegger and the philosophy of technology in Star wars / Jerold J. Abrams --
"If droids could think . . ." : droids as slaves and persons / Robert Arp --
"Size matters not" : the Force as the causal power of the Jedi / Jan-Erik Jones --
The Force is with us : Hegel's philosophy of spirit strikes back at the empire / James Lawler --
"There's always a bigger fish" : truth, faith and a galactic society --
"What is thy bidding, my master?" : Star wars and the Hegelian struggle for recognition / Brian Cameron --
By any means necessary : tyranny, democracy, republic, and empire / Kevin S. Decker --
Humanizing technology : flesh and machine in Aristotle and The empire strikes back / Jerome Donnelly --
"A certain point of view" : lying Jedi, honest Sith, and the viewers who love them / Shanti Fader --
Religious pragmatism through the eyes of Luke Skywalker / Joseph W. Long.
